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The Technological Condition

How do our tools transform us?

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Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • Geoff Shullenberger

Put Not Thy Trust in Nate Silver

How simulation replaced reality

Geoff Shullenberger

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Essay | Summer/Fall 2018

Summer/Fall 2018

  • Nick Barrowman

Why Data Is Never Raw

On the seductive myth of information free of human judgment

Nick Barrowman

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Essay | Winter 2018

Winter 2018

  • Tafari Mbadiwe

Algorithmic Injustice

Don’t blame the algorithm — as long as there are racial disparities in the justice system, sentencing software can never be entirely fair.

Tafari Mbadiwe

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Online Exclusive | April 24, 2018

April 24, 2018

  • Tafari Mbadiwe

Executive Summary of “Algorithmic Injustice”

Don’t blame the algorithm — as long as there are racial disparities in the justice system, sentencing software can never be entirely fair.

Tafari Mbadiwe

Essay | Spring/Summer 2016

Spring/Summer 2016

  • Daniel Sarewitz

Saving Science

Science isn’t self-correcting, it’s self-destructing. To save the enterprise, scientists must come out of the lab and into the real world.

From: The Integrity of Science

Daniel Sarewitz

Essay | Summer/Fall 2014

Summer/Fall 2014

  • Nick Barrowman

Correlation, Causation, and Confusion

Nick Barrowman

State of the Art | Fall 2008

Fall 2008

  • Peter Suderman

Staying Afloat

Treading Water in a Sea of Data

Peter Suderman

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